The Role of Travel Essay -- Traveling Sociology

Travel is an effective way to experience some other nations and their destinations. broadcast minded traveling allows people to immerse themselves in the culture of foreign nations. But, there are some forms of travel that revolve around a distinct mindset, a mindset in which the goal is to impose your culture on anothers culture. Examples of this negative imperialist type of travel are the travels of exploration done by Christopher Columbus in the Americas and, American soldiers in Vietnam, depicted in Francis Cooplas film The Apocalypse Now Redux. The negative effects of other forms of travel include the travels of migration to London by Caribbeans in Sam Selvons The Lonely Londoners. Through travel you are provided with means to learn closely a nation and to engage in foreign cultures firsthand nevertheless, some forms of travel are unconstructive towards the learning process.In letter written by Christopher Columbus, his accounts of the exploration of the Americas showed how travel can be negative. Columbus wrote to Argon sovereigns, Santangel and Sanchez, about his time in the Americas. Their only source of information about the nation and its culture came from Columbus narratives and stereotypes. His letters flirted with the truth it seemed Columbus intentions were to make the people of the Americas appear inferior and to make conquering them sound like an easy task. Throughout his letters Columbus shows a lack of respect for the people of the Americas and their culture. In the quote, I found innumerable people and very many islands, of which I took possession in Your Highnesses name, Columbus neglects the fact that the islands were already inhabited by the people of the Americas. (Zamora, 3). Columbus is a good ex... ...tives and misconceptions to be a part of their trips nations and their cultures will continue to be misrepresented. The negative aspects of travel are found in Columbus exploration of the Americas, the conquest of Vietnam in the film The Apocalypse Now Redux, Caribbeans migration to London in The Lonely Londoners. But if travelers became more self aware perhaps more trips would be like self-defining like Stellas in How Stella Got Her television channel Back. Travel is an all important(p) part of our lives and it will only be a positive part if we allow ourselves and our minds to be open to other nations and their cultures.Work Cited The Apocalayse Now Redux.Dir.Fracncis Ford Coppola. Paramont Pictures,2001McMilan, Terry. How Stella Got Her Groove Back. New York Penguin Group, 1997.Selvon, Sam. The Lonely Londoners.Edinburgh Gate Pearson Education Limited,1956.